Awards & Recognition
★Columbia Law School Medal for Excellence (2016) - highest honor for alumni
★International Religious Freedom Award presenter
★Global Anti-Racism Champions Award ceremony host
Notable Facts
→71st United States Secretary of State (2021-2025)
→Previously Deputy Secretary of State under Obama (2015-2017)
→Co-founder of WestExec Advisors consulting firm
→Author of 'Ally Versus Ally' (1987) and upcoming memoir with Crown Publishing
→Harvard College graduate, Columbia Law School JD
→Father Donald Blinken was US Ambassador to Hungary
→Stepfather Samuel Pisar was Holocaust survivor
→Traveled over 1 million miles as Secretary of State
→Plays guitar and has songs on Spotify under alias 'Ablinken'
→Fluent in French, grew up partially in Paris